Sentences with phrase «favor of charter change»

Recently, Rhee's husband, a former NBA star and Mayor of Sacramento, California showed up to campaign in favor of the charter change.

After the vote in November, there was a 48 - vote spread in favor of charter change.

Not exact matches

«This becomes too much of a political football often in Albany, where the discussion is, unless there's additional changes in favor of charters, people talk about perhaps not extending mayoral control of education,» he said on the John Catsimatidis AM 970 radio show.

On election night, there was a 48 vote spread in favor of changing the charter from a commission form of government to a city manager and expanded city council.

I actually deprecated that approach to philanthropy in favor of much more ambitious end - runs of the entrenched K - 12 system: all sorts of great charter schools, policy changes (e.g. for special ed), unconventional human - capital development programs, better information for kids regarding their progress (or lack thereof) in school, personalized learning via sophisticated technology, and much more.

The other key word Sutton changed was in the ballot measure summary - dropping the word «certain» in favor of «qualifying» to describe the organizations authorized to operate public charter schools.